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Klaus Schulze

Born August 4th 1947, Schulze initially made his mark as a drummer, first with the group Psy Free, later with Tangerine Dream (he played on their first album \"Electronic Meditation\" before he quit) and Ash Ra Tempel (with Manuel Göttsching). In 1971 Schulze started a solo career as an electronic musician and released a couple of heavily experimental albums, \"Irrlicht\" and \"Cyborg\". 1974\'s \"Blackdance\" was the first release where he used a \"real\" synthesizer, and later in the 70\'s he would record albums such as \"Moondawn\", \"Mirage\" and \"X\" and embark on several tours, documented across a number of live albums.

Born August 4th 1947, Schulze initially made his mark as a drummer, first with the group Psy Free, later with Tangerine Dream (he played on their first album \"Electronic Meditation\" before he quit) and Ash Ra Tempel (with Manuel Göttsching). In 1971 Schulze started a solo career as an electronic musician and released a couple of heavily experimental albums, \"Irrlicht\" and \"Cyborg\". 1974\'s \"Blackdance\" was the first release where he used a \"real\" synthesizer, and later in the 70\'s he would record albums such as \"Moondawn\", \"Mirage\" and \"X\" and embark on several tours, documented across a number of live albums.

La Vie Electronique 1
In 2009, Klaus D. Mueller and Schulze began releasing La Vie Electronique ("The Electronic Life"), a series of three-CD sets that reissued all the material previously released in these long-deleted box sets, plus a few unreleased tracks, with all the material put back in chronological sequence (the Edition sets mixed things up, time line-wise). Volume 1 covers the years 1968-1972 and is mainly very interesting. One highlight is "I Was Dreaming I Was Awake and Then I Woke Up and Found Myself Asle…
The Dark Side of the Moog Vol. 2
In 1994, Klaus Schulze was able to look back on a long, successful and highly influential career, but he was also able to embrace the new.He was in the midst of his 'digital phase', fascinated by sampling technology, and had a clear idea of where he could go with the technology, which resulted in albums like Beyond Recall; the Royal Festival Hall recordings; The Dome Event and even to an extent his opera Totentag.By contrast Peter Kuhlman a.k.a Pete Namlook had just started. In 1992 he had found…
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